Causes and Consequences of WWI

By yesseniapantoja
  • Period: to

    WWI Era

  • Germany was created by Prussia after defeating the Austrian Empire and France in war

  • Austria-Hungary accepted Germany’s leadership in Central Europe

  • Otto von Bismarck formed an alliance with Russia and Austria-Hungary called the Three Emperors’ Alliance

  • Germany formed an alliance with Italy and Austria-Hungary

  • United States annexed Hawaii and seized the Philippines from Spain

  • France made alliance with Russia

    France wanted to take advantage of the ending of the Reinsurance Treaty.
  • Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railroad was completed

    Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railroad was completed

  • Period: to

    Russo-Japanese War

  • Triple Entente was created

    Was an alliance with France, Russia, and Germany

  • Austria-Hungary officially annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina

  • Korea became a Japanese colony

  • heightened oppression after the defeat of the empire in the First Balkan War

  • Russia’s empire extended from Central Europe to the Pacific Ocean, and from the Arctic to Afghanistan

  • Murder of Franz Ferdinand, the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne

    By an act of Serbian nationalism

  • The French begged Russia to take pressure off of the western Front by invading Germany

    They did attack
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    World War 1

  • Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia

  • Germany declared war on Russia

  • Germany declared war on France

  • Japan declared war on Germany

  • Central Powers were joined by Bulgaria

  • Italy joined Allied Powers

    Allied Powers were Britain, France, and Russia

  • Germany began using poison gas for troops

  • Austrians conquered Serbia

  • a U-boat sank the British passenger ship Lusitania

    which was also carrying 173 tons of ammunition from New York to London

  • Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

  • Austrians conquered Romania

  • the Turks defeated a force of British colonial troops from India

  • Britain to begin requiring military service from men age 18 to 41

    Led from heavy battlefield losses

  • U.S. warships were helping the British navy combat the German U-boat blockade

  • Russia's withdrawal from the war dissolved the Eastern Front

  • By this time Germany was directing artillery fire and dropping bombs on military and civilian targets

  • British captured Jerusalem

  • In Germany food riots and strikes happened

    because the clothes were scarce and people didn't even have enough to eat.

  • The United States declares war on Germany.

  • President Woodrow Wilson issued a statement of war goals called the Fourteen Points

  • The Fourteen Points contributed to Germany’s decision to surrender

  • The Germans launched a massive attack on the British at the Second Battle of the Somme

  • the American army defeated German forces at Saint Mihiel

  • Austria-Hungary was destroyed

    by the collapse of its army and indepencence movements within its owe empire and they also asked for peace

  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany

  • Bulgaria surrendered

  • The Turks surrendered

  • Germans signed an armistice

    to stop fighting

  • The War Ended